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After Italy’s Pandemic Nightmare, Economy Falters — And Poverty Spreads
The global economy is likely to take a massive hit from the pandemic, and the World Bank warns poverty levels will rise as a result. It’s already happening in Italy, Europe's third-largest economy. The country suffered a devastating...
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Taylor Branch: Pillar of Fire
Taylor Branch, author of "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965" discusses Martin Luther King Jr.'s spiritual and political legacy.
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Why Immigration Is A Focal Issue In South African Election
In South Africa, voters will go to the polls Wednesday in an election that could present the strongest challenge to date for the ruling African National Congress. A recent wave of xenophobic attacks has put the issue of immigration front...
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The small Scottish island where Syrian refugees found peace
Once a flourishing vacation destination, the population of Scotland's Isle of Bute has shrunk and its economy withered. But the arrival of 24 Syrian families is contributing to an atmosphere of regeneration. Special correspondent Malcolm...
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Author Elaine Pagels Explores Why Humans Rely On Religious Belief
Why do people have faith in what they cannot see? Author Elaine Pagels explores the concept of religious belief, and shares her own experience with finding faith in the face of tragedy, in her new book, "Why Religion?" Jeffrey Brown...
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Yemen's Ongoing Civil War Creates A Life Of Loss For Children
As the civil war in Yemen enters its sixth year, tens of thousands have died in the fighting, while disease and hunger have killed thousands more. The many children who have lost or been abandoned by parents have suffered the most, both...
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Rohingya refugees flee harrowing violence
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh in the
past three weeks after suffering violent attacks by Myanmar troops and
Buddhist vigilantes. The sudden influx of Rohingyas is causing tensions
with local...
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How one woman brought life-saving maternity care to Somaliland
Somaliland, a region of Somalia that lay in ruin from years of war, suffers
some of the world's highest rates of infant and maternal mortality. But 15
years ago, Edna Adan fulfilled a lifelong dream by building a nonprofit
hospital...
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A community overwhelmed by opioids
At the epicenter of America's opioid epidemic, Huntington, West Virginia’s
growing addiction problem has overwhelmed everyone from first responders to
business owners to newborns. So far, the city's robust efforts to fight
back...
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Despite tough conditions, kids who escaped Mosul are happy to be free
A refugee camp just east of Mosul was supposed to be a temporary haven for those fleeing life under the Islamic State. As winter approaches, residents are stuck living in tents under harsh conditions. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs...
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Exploring how and why so many migrants are crossing the southern border
Exploring How And Why So Many Migrants Are Crossing The Southern Border
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Kevin Wilson’s Novel “Nothing To See Here” Makes Fun Of Your Child’S Meltdown
A new, acclaimed novel takes a young child's meltdown and turns it into a surreal satire of modern life. In "Nothing to See Here," author Kevin Wilson uses a universal experience of parenthood to explore some incendiary family dynamics....
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How faculty mentors can help first-generation students succeed
A new initiative by the University of California system uses first-generation faculty to guide first-generation students, with the goal of decreasing dropout rates. As part of our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan visits UCLA...
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How migrants and refugees are being welcomed in tiny Italian village
Starting tomorrow, the European Union plans to start sending back some of the 170,000 migrants and refugees who have made the dangerous journey by sea to Europe this year. Along another main migrant sea route from North Africa toward...
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As Venezuela's economy plummets, mass exodus to ensues (WEEKEND)
Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, Venezuelaâs economy is in a freefall, necessities have become scarce and tens of thousands of residents are fleeing across the border to Colombia. With support from the Pulitzer...
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How Giant African Rats Are Helping Uncover Deadly Land Mines In Cambodia
From Angola to the former Yugoslavia, land mines are a lethal legacy of wars over long ago. Cambodia is among the most affected countries, with millions of buried explosives that kill and maim people each year. Now, an organization is...
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Telling stories helps refugee children learn a new language
How do young children who have come to the United States as immigrants or refugees learn English? At one early education school and laboratory in Houston, the new language comes to life when kids use storytelling and dramatic play to get...
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How Surge In Family Border Crossings Is Complicating Enforcement
In the Yuma sector of the southwestern Arizona border, Border Patrol officials are observing dramatic shifts in the migrant populations they apprehend. In the past, a majority of migrants caught crossing illegally were single men. Now...
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Guatemalan citizens fleeing conflict.
This video looks at the harsh reality of Guatemalan citizens fleeing conflict.
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What asylum-seekers meet when they try to cross legally
U.S. officials have maintained that potential asylum-seekers entering at legal border crossings will not be prosecuted and will be processed in turn. But the process isn't always that easy. In a cross-border report from Juarez and El...
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Why Brexit may be the best thing for Britain's fishing industry
The world was shocked when, in June, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. Many believe the severance will negatively affect Britain's economy, but the fishing industry expects benefits -- including increased...
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Britain Cautiously Plans To Ease Rigid Lockdown Restrictions
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a cautious timetable
ending the country's COVID lockdown, one of the strictest in the world with
almost all foreign travel outlawed under the guidelines. But the full
lockdown isn’t...
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Afghanistan
Nearly nine months since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the economy is in freefall and about half the country is nearing acute food insecurity. But even with this widespread suffering, the Taliban on Sunday ordered all women be...
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For child migrants, desperate journey to freedom is especially dangerous
The boat trip from North Africa to Italy has ended in death and heartbreak for many migrants. It has been especially tough on children, many of whom come by themselves. In the second of a three-part Desperate Journey series from the...